DOMUS 346
Settembre 1958
Gio Ponti [Editorial Director]
Gio Ponti [Editorial Director]: DOMUS 346. Milan, Editoriale Domus: Settembre 1958. Original edition. Text in Italian. English, German and French translation summary. Slim folio. Thick photographically printed perfect bound wrappers. Side stitched textblock. 56 [iv] pp. Articles and advertisements. Multiple paper stocks and inserts. Elaborate graphic design throughout. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Yellowing to page edges. A very good copy. Cover by Franco Grignani.
9.75 x 12.75 vintage magazine with 56 [iv] pages printed on a variety of paper stocks of black and white [and some color] examples of the best modern interior and industrial design, circa 1958 -- with beautiful engraving and gravure printing throughout.
- Aspects Of A Building [Crown Hall] By Mies van der Rohe
- Apartment House In Yokohama: Kikutake Kiyonory
- Speech Delivered At The Harvard Club At The Alumni Dinner For Walter Gropius' 75th Birthday
- In Milan For A Bachelor: Marco Zanuso
- Foreign Sculpture At The Triennale
- The XXIX Venice Biennale: Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, Antonio Tapies, Antonio Saura, Juan-Jose Tharrats, William Scott, S. W. Hayter, Emil Schumacher, Wielhelm Wessel, Andre Masson, Georges Braque, Jules Bissier, Francois Arnal, Charles Rollier, Kenzo Okada, Maria Jarema, Edo Murtic, Wols, etc.
- The Italian Section At The XXIX Venice Biennale: Massimo Campigli, Ottone Rosai, Leo Longanesi, Raffaele De Grada, Francesco Menzio, Mario Mafai, Mario Radice, Osvaldo Licini, Umberto Mastroianni, Enrico Prampolini, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina, Carmelo Cappello, Francesco Somaini, Alfredo Chighine, Emilio Scanvino, Domenico Spinosa, Sergio Dangelo, Mario Negri, Carlo Ramous, Umberto Milani, Giuseppe Migneco, Riccardo Licata, etc.
- The Pleasure Of Drawing The Human Figure: Gio Ponti
- Woods And Castles: Pompeo Pianezzola
- The 1957 Formica Domus Competition: Eugenio Gerli, Mario Agostoni, Bepi Fiori, Giancarlo Piccinno, Alfredo Arcelli & Figli, Corrado Catello, Sergio Fasani, Danilo Favotto Valenti, Vittorio Chiaia & Massimo Napolitano, Sergio Mazza, Gianfranco Frattini, Sergio Cossovich & Aldo Monzeglio, Piero Frigerio, etc.
- In Copenhagen: Mary Bloch
- Textiles: Sven Markelius, Astrid Sampe
- Lamps At the Venice Biennale
- Home Furnishings
- Sergio Mazza
- Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
- Italy And Paris: Sergio Asti & Gianfranco Frattini
- and more.
Long considered Europe's most influential architecture and design magazine, Domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928 as a "living diary" in which he could advertise his own work, outline the "aims" of his projects and raise people's awareness about other design issues. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone, " Domus lauded mass-production and tried to link architecture and artisans in a new, unforeseen ways. Ponti left Domus in 1940 to start his other journal, Stile in which he could focus on art and the impact of the war on Italian architects and architecture. In 1948 Ponti returned to Domus, where he recast it in his own eclectic, exuberant vision of the modern and tirelessly championed designers he admired, notably Carlo Mollino.
In his 1957 book Amate L'Architettura (In Praise of Achitecture) Ponti extolled his audience to "Love architecture, be it ancient or modern. Love it for its fantastic, adventurous and solemn creations; for its inventions; for the abstract, allusive and figurative forms that enchant our spirit and enrapture our thoughts. Love architecture, the stage and support of our lives." This spirit reverberates through every page of Domus.